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Guillermo Senmartin, Attorney At Law

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Experience: Over 12+ years of experience in various areas of U.S. Law and 15+ years of experience in U.S. Immigration Law..

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Hello. I am 21 unmarried and live in the UK I want to immigrate

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Hello. I am 21 unmarried and live in the UK I want to immigrate to the US my father is a US citizen and is financially stable enough to support me and is going to file a I130 petition for me. I would like to know how long this process will take from filing the form to me being able to leave the UK and if hiring an immigration lawyer would speed up the process at all.

Hello and thank you for using our service. My name is Guillermo Senmartin and I am a licensed attorney and will try my best to help you. Believe me that I will try my best to give you a solution if one exists, but sometimes the law does not have a good one. Also, we have been having technical issues lately. If you respond and you do not see your response, please post again until you can see it because if you cannot see it, I cannot see it to respond.

Unfortunately, hiring an attorney will not speed up the process at all. It could just help to make sure that there are no delays due to errors, but it won't speed up the process. I will explain. Take a look at this link:

You are in the F1 category, unmarried son over 21 of a U.S. Citizen.You will see a date there that is 01JAN07. This means that only I-130s filed on or before January 1, 2007 can now be used to immigrate to the U.S. This is a waiting line. There is nothing in the law that allows anyone to jump ahead of anyone else in line not even in the case of an emergency. So unfortunately, if your father files now, in 2014, you would have about a 7 year wait or so until 2007 gets to 2014. Until that time, you cannot immigrate through that petition. I am truly sorry.

I will go over other ways for you to immigrate.There are 5 ways to obtain U.S. Lawful Permanent Residency.They are through family, through employment, through Asylum or refugee process, through investment, or through the lottery.

For family, it must be immediate family such as U.S. Citizen spouse or U.S. Citizen children over 21 in order to be able to come immediately.U.S. Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident parents or U.S. Citizen siblings, or Lawful Permanent Resident spouses can also help you, but the wait for that is about 4 to 12 years or so.As we have already discussed, through your father you are looking at around 7 years.

Through employment, you would have to generally prove that you would not be taking away a job from a U.S. worker and the less experience and education you have, the harder that is to do.

Through Asylum or Refugee process, you must prove that you will be persecuted, tortured or killed if you stay in your country and that this will happen to you because of your nationality, race, religion, political opinion, or membership in a particular social group, not because you would run the same risk as anyone else in your country to fall victim to a crime or bad economic conditions.

Through investment, you are looking at generally $1,000,000.00 for a residency, or $500,000.00 in an area designated as a high-employment area, plus in both cases the investment has to create 10 or more jobs for U.S. workers.

And through the lottery, it would be very difficult to win one of the 50,000 visas available per year and some countries do not qualify (persons from the UK do not qualify).

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